FIELD TRIP WITH PATRICK BLANC IN GALAPAGOS

The Botanist Patrick Blanc, inventor of the Vertical Garden (Mur Végétal) takes you to a Field Trip in the Galapagos islands where the endemic species concern the plants as well as the animals, both in coastal dry areas and in the perhumid highlands thanks to the garua.
Filmed & Produced by Pascal Héni
PasPat 2021
Plant list :
Alternanthera echinocephala, Blechnum polypodioides, Bursera graveolens subsp. malacophylla, Cinchona pubescens, Cordia lutea, Croton scouleri, Cryptocarpus pyriformis, Cyathea weatherbyana, Cyperus sp., Distimake aegyptius (syn. Merremia a.), Erigeron tenuifolius (syn. Darwiniothamnus), Erythrina velutina, Gossypium darwinii, Heliotropium curassavicum, Ipomoea habeliana, Jasminocereus thouarsii, Ludwigia leptocarpa, Lycium minimum, Lycopodiella cernua, Miconia robinsoniana, Opuntia galapageia var. gigantea, Opuntia galapageia var. myriacantha (syn. O. echios var. echios), Opuntia galapageia var. zacana, Parkinsonia aculeata, Passiflora colinvauxii, Peperomia galapagensis, Phlebodium pseudoaureum, Phoradendron berteroanum, Pityrogramma calomelanos, Pleopeltis tridens, Plumbago zeylanica, Psidium galapageium, Psychotria rufipes, Scaevola plumieri, Scalesia affinis, Scalesia helleri, Scalesia pedunculata, Scutia spicata var. pauciflora, Sesuvium portulacastrum, Sida rhombifolia, Sphagnum sp., Tillandsia insularis, Tiquilia nesiotica, Tournefortia pubescens, Tournefortia rufo-sericea, Vachellia rorudiana, Volkameria mollis (syn. Clerodendrum m.), Waltheria ovata
Animal list:
Albemarle Lava Lizard, American Flamingo, American Oystercatcher, Barn Owl, Blue-footed Booby, Galápagos Giant Tortoise, Galápagos, Land-Iguana, Galápagos Mockingbird, Galápagos Rail, Galápagos Sea Lion, Magnificent Frigatebird, Marine Iguana, Sally-lightfoot Crab, Slate Pencil Urchin, Small Cactus Finch, Small Tree-Finch, Spotless Ladybug, Swallow-tailed Gull, White-cheeked Pintail Duck, Woodpecker Finch, Yellow Warbler

[@paulwilkinson8977]

This whole series is the greatest gift.

[@12349vinicius]

This is a gift for the christmas, thank you!

[@phocasgarden]

Thank you so much! This episode is too beautiful, 54 minutes doesn't feel enough :")

[@helgedonath1524]

comme toujours merveilleux de vous suivre maître. j'adore tes reportages ! Salutations Helge d'Allemagne

[@cvision4657]

Wahoo..une série magnifique..véritables découvertes in-situ tout au long de ces épisodes..merci à vous : M.Blanc et M. Héni 🙏

[@creaturefree]

Merci beaucoup. C'était bien de montrer qu'il n'y a pas que les animaux qui sont particuliers et intéressants aux Galapagos et que d'autre part les forêts de nuages côtoient les déserts côtiers.

[@herenowonly]

Just found your channel, absolutely love your videos!! Will be watching all of them, thank you for taking us on these incredible adventures!! I wish I was there too!!! 🌺🥰🌿🦋💕

[@StuffandThings_]

Some time you should check out the Pacoche humid forest in mainland Ecuador where the cloud forest not only goes near to the coast like the Galapagos but literally right up to it! There are a few other candidates for sea level cloud forest like ecosystems but as far as I'm aware Pacoche is the only equatorial one (to be fair, on San Cristobal it gets really close to the coast too and perhaps right up to it in the valleys according to what it looks like on satellite, but still not quite as striking). Neat to see such a fascinating ecosystem in detail, the Galapagos seem to be a prime example of "plant blindness" because people only ever focus on the fauna.

[@creaturefree]

Yes, always fascinating to see the equatorial forests in direct contact with ocean. We had the opportunity to spend some time in the Choco forests in Colombia which are incredibly rich just as everybody knows. Pascal has not yet released the film...

[@meta.aesthetica]

superbe, merci beaucoup!

[@Maubotoable]

Wow, tortugas y botanica. Lo amo 😍

[@cedricbernat]

Comme toujours : 1000merciiiis à Vous !!! And yes, i agree with others ones : it feels like it last never enough , haha, .... 1000merciiiis Patrick et Pascal !!!

[@creaturefree]

Et 1000 merci à vous pour votre fidélité et votre émerveillement devant Dame Nature que Pascal restitue à merveille.

[@creaturefree]

Et merci à vous pour cette fidélité.

[@catherinerigaux6825]

👏👏👏👏👍👋

[@James-gq5fb]

Slay

[@antsfrance9999]

Can you please do a video on french guiana?

[@creaturefree]

I did go so many times to French Guyana since 1978 and regularly in our CNRS field station at Les Nouragues from 1986 to 2003. But I prefer now to visit the forests of many other areas of the world. Of course, I'll come back with Pascal and we'll try to have good images.